<p>Speaking of that, shadow… I actually kind of have quasi-bad-news for you guys.
I actually am almost sure that I’ll be taking a gap year. So, if I do get accepted, we still probably wouldn’t be in the same class. :****(
Not that it matters that much, haha. I’m just one member. (Not to mention there’s a fair (very fair) chance of flat-out rejection anyway, haha… Better not talk about that though, too close to decisions.)</p>
<p>I’d definitely come to admit weekend, though!</p>
<p>gay year what do you mean?</p>
<p>Well I’m heading off to bed. Good Night you guys for real!</p>
<p>Gap years are when people take a year off between high school and college to do something else, usually to expand their view of the world and develop their maturity before heading off. You basically tell the college you’re accepted to that you’re deferring your acceptance spot for a year (they’ll save it for you, so you’re guaranteed a spot) to spend the year following high school doing [something, you have to give them a reason].
Many colleges openly advocate the practice of students taking gap years, as students almost always come back much more mature and ready for college, instead of the sometimes burnt-out students coming straight from high school. Harvard, for example, openly encourages it, and Stanford does as well.</p>
<p>Good night Diivio!</p>
<p>Decisions are actually in less than two weeks… And not the fake two weeks that we constructed before. 
Oddly enough, I’m less anxious now than I was then. Probably because I’m so focused on UC apps.</p>
<p>Prussia, you shouldn’t take a gap year. Just my opinion. 
What would you be doing, anyway?</p>
<p>good luck submitting at this hour for UC. ALL of my friends are having problems with it.
OH woe is me. I do not feel like doing Hamlet now.</p>
<p>I’m actually planning to submit for the UCs tomorrow… Is that at all realistic?</p>
<p>Haha, I just remembered: last year, one of my older friends suddenly Facebook messaged me at 11:20 PM on the day UC apps were due. “Starmie, I’m about to start my essays. Do you think you could read them over when I’m done?”</p>
<p>HAHAHA oh wow. At least I don’t slack that badly x]</p>
<p>anyone applying to harvard b4 the priority deadline?</p>
<p>when is the priority deadline?</p>
<p>huzzah! so relieved now. i feel like i’ve aged a couple years through this past month. maybe because of getting almost no sleep for the last 4 days? i don’t know…
have fun doing the rest of your apps guys (:
and i read a scene of hamlet. YAY ME</p>
<p>im scared. really scared. i found a typo in my resume, which i submitted via ‘additional info’. ■■■.</p>
<p>Vanilla, read this: [url="<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html"]Typo[/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html"]Typo[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Just so you know, he got accepted.</p>
<p>Also, haha, I could thoroughly explain my reasons for taking a gap year, but it’d be a lot to write. Actually, this is kinda long anyway, and it’s just about me, so don’t anyone feel obligated to read it, haha.
Basically, I want to do it for financial and personal reasons. I really want to have a time when I can really dig my teeth into my private art and design business, because from college onward I know I’m not going to have the time. Besides raising the amount of commissions I have time to accept, I want to join what a lot of my friends have done and get my own table at an “Artists’ Alley” in a convention. I’ve had people offer to share a table with me before, but had to turn it down because it couldn’t fit with my school schedule. Same with number of commissions and whatnot. I want a year to really delve into my art before it has to go on the shelf as a part-time hobby again.
Also, I know it sounds weird, but I really want to be put in a more humble position in some part-time job; I’m so used to being treated like some revered supergenius star at my school (against my will, I hate drawing attention to myself), and want to experience life from a more humble position, like a retail job. Also, I really need money, ‘cause my family is totally poor. We get financial aid to go to my private school, haha.
Really my dream part-time job for a gap year would be working as a sort of teacher assistant at my school, because I have a really good relationship with all my teachers, and I love the thought of being able to help them and the school out. I’d love to help our guidance counselor to know more about higher-tier admissions processes (by giving her resources, of course; I don’t claim to be an expert) so that my school can become more competitive and respected. Also, the environment would help me not get rusty academically, because, as a teachers’ assistant, I would be grading papers/tests/etc.
I know it sounds weird, but I’ve gone to my school since pre-K, so the staff and I are very close.
I’ve no interest in the whole “taking a break from studies” thing, because, honestly, I wish I could go to Stanford tomorrow. That’s just the reason some people give.</p>
<p>One wall of text later, you know more about Prussia than you ever wanted! Hooray!
Again, no one is obligated to read that mess, hahaha…</p>
<p>wow… out for like 10 hours and what have we got here… LOL</p>
<p>i went out for a few days, and im lost here haha
btw, anything between 13-15 days now!!!</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>few days = few thousand posts XD</p>
<p>oh yes, we have won the Yale Wars :D</p>
<p>@Starmie, I plan on sending my UC Apps tomorrow. I imagine that I won’t wait until 11:20 PM though. Have you SEEEEEEN those essays though? They aren’t the same as the ones on the common app :(</p>
<p>i just sent my UC app. woohoo.</p>
<p>sarbaraj101: stanford has quite a few nepalis. class of 2013 had one too. :)</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Stanford has 3 Nepalis in 2013 [from the EA pool]. One of them was a senior at my High School. </p>
<p>Only 2 people are EAing in Stanford from Nepal this year Thereby, I am hopeful even with a quite sad 630 in my CR…</p>
<p>I just hope ECAs and academics will make up for it as I have seen that some people (very few) with CR in the range 400 - 490 also accepted XD</p>
<p>But yes, it’s the same with me likw any of you. Some days, I feel I <em>am</em> getting in. And one other days I feel I have no chance at all.</p>
<p>LOL… but yes, that’s how I feel :)</p>